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    NV 3g, do you see better coverage?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    It has been mentioned that once a tower has been upgraded you might see a better signal up to 20% in some cases. Those of you that have the new 3g NV upgrades (not the band-aid fixes) have you seen better reception in those places where you had a weak or poor signal?

     

    You are correct with the RUUs mounted at the top and the new fiber cabling there will be a coverage increase when completed 1900mhz included.

    Network Vision/LTE - Indianapolis Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    Hey all this is my first post on here. I bought the Galaxy S3 on black Friday and was able to connect to 4G at Sam’s Club in Mishawaka which was great! So I was expecting to be able to connect to 4G here in Indy as well. I live by Keystone At The Crossing and work downtown on Virginia Avenue. According to the Sensorly app I should have had a 4G connection driving through Carmel over the weekend and also on my way to work driving down 465 on the East side to 70W and then downtown however I have not had any 4G signal at all since leaving South Bend. Have others been able to connect to 4G in these areas over the last few days?

     

    Try turning airplane mode on and off.

    Network Vision/LTE - Indianapolis Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    @omega

    The list of completed sites is only available to sponsors' date=' please do not share the information outside of the sponsor forums.

     

    Sites that appear on the completed sites list are confirmed by Sprint.

    The completed sites list is only available to Sponsors, please do not share this information outside of the Sponsor forums.

     

    All sites listed on the completed sites map are accepted by Sprint.[/quote']

     

    Interesting since the site has legacy hardware and no 4G.

     

    Also since you edited my post will Robert see my original message?

     

    Not that I dont believe you but nothing has changed on that site.

    Markets with legacy Motorola equipment for CDMA/3G

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I remember Robert or somebody mentioned awhile ago that there were markets out there that had Motorola legacy equipment for CDMA/3G that was having trouble working with the Samsung's NV CDMA/3G/4G infrastructure in terms of voice handoff so Sprint is trying to work hard to complete those markets to avoid massive service disruptions.

     

    From my recollection I remember hearing Chicago and Indianapolis as 2 cities. Are there any other markets that have Motorola legacy equipment? I assume these markets will be high priority on Sprint's list since they don't work well with the new NV infrastructure and want to avoid any massive service disruptions.

     

    Hi,

     

    I believe Indianapolis uses Ericsson equipment.

    evo 4g lte OR galexy s3

    in Misc.

    Posted

     

    Well i do like best buys buy back program. 30 gets you 50% back from full price of 700. That's from months 1-6. Its about 280 from 6-12 months from purchase date' date=' kind of a cool thing if i want to buy a new phone. Money kind of tight right now for me so can't buy out of my contract or pay full price for a phone even after trade in.[/quote']

     

    Didn't that program just get canceled ?

    Sprint's Tarazi: Network Vision 2.0 is our HetNet strategy

    in General Topics

    Posted

    http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/sprints-tarazi-explains-hetnets-and-network-vision-20/2012-10-03

     

    So much for NV 2.0 being the great expansion into rural areas using CDMA/LTE-800. Good to see they are embracing WIFI' date=' though.

     

    Also interesting, they are calling LTE-800/LTE-2500 "Network Vision 2.0" now. I guess that makes sense. Interview details more about Sprint's plan for pico cells too.[/quote']

     

    Sounds like all Network Vision 2.0 is LTE Advanced.

     

    Nothing to surprising .

    T-Mobile/MetroPCS Merger

    in General Topics

    Posted

     

    T-Mobile' date=' like Sprint, has been able to do incredibly well without using sub-GHz spectrum (of which Sprint has 14MHz). With RRUs (which T-Mobile has been deploying), their PCS site spacing should work well enough for AWS LTE, particularly since modulation complexity of HSPA+ is not far off from LTE (if I remember correctly, both are 64QAM at full rate).

     

    As for their WCDMA network, T-Mobile only needs to heep a single 5x5 channel in AWS. The rest can go in PCS, along with GSM and (temporarily) CDMA. Bets on which 2G tech gets phased out first?

     

    The real question is how much spectrum each carrier has for LTE, I suppose, accounting for their legacy networks.

     

    Sprint has effectively 40MHz in most areas, spread between PCS and SMR, since they'll probably need to keep 5x5 in PCS earmarked for CDMA for the foreseeable future (enough for three CDMA carriers). Out of the remaining 30MHz you have 5x5 in SMR and 5x5 in the PCS G block, which Sprint has to keep as-is because a) There's no more space in SMR and B) Many Print phones only support 5x5 LTE. That leaves at best a single 10x10 channel for LTE on Sprint, discounting Clearwire spectrum.

     

    The formula for T-Mobile is more straightforward: take AWS holdings and subtract 5x5. The company can cherry-pick phones that support 20x20 LTE-FD, relying on HSPA+ (including DC-HSPA) for phones that can't do that bandwidth. But back to 20x20...T-Mobile could already do that in a few markets (such as Seattle) and now they can do that in more. This is in AWS spectrum too, so you're looking at a capacity/coverage ratio 4x that of Sprint's with a single 5x5 carrier. O fcourse, the math doesn't quite work out this way...Sprint can add more 5x5 LTE channels...but normal issues with wide channels (reduced transmit power) are mitigated by the fact that LTE is made up of tons of tiny subcarriers, so it appears as though you can transmit 20MHz with just as much RSRP as 5MHz.

     

    The scary thing for Verizon, AT&T and Sprint is that T-Mobile's phones will be capable of 20x20 FD-LTE out of the gate if the company so chooses. No one else has the right phones with the right bands to compete with this. And TMo can deploy their network at a good clip since they already have RRUs on some H+ sites and enhanced backhaul to practically every H+ site.

     

    The elephant in the room, of course, is Newco's debt. If DT gets greedy, TMo will not be able to move quickly enough. If DT is relaxed about collecitng the loan, be prepared for a company that, once they get CDMA dealt with, will give the other three carriers a run for their money in and around any medium-sized or larger city.

     

    Related: I expect Sprint to buy CricKet and swap its AWS for T-Mobile PCS within a year. Now especially since CricKet has a few key pieces of AWS spectrum that T-Mobile would love to have, and between T-Mobile and MetroPCS there's a fair amount of PCS spectrum that Sprint would like.[/quote']

     

    I thought tmobile was not using rru's?

     

    Aren't they using antennas with built in rru's?

     

    With them doing this wouldn't it increase the cost to add new spectrum to there towers ?

    T-Mobile/MetroPCS Merger

    in General Topics

    Posted

    So what company is going to take on the job of acquiring US Cellular? Verizon lines up the best spectrum wise' date=' but would probably get rejected by the FCC. Also they were told to dump 700 a and b and this would have them acquiring more.

     

    Sprint would have to sell off AWS and Cellular(850), and 700 just to get some PCS

    AT&T makes sense, would the FCC allow it?

    T-Mobile is not CDMA, but that doesn't seem to stop them. It would be their first cellular 850 spectrum to maintain, however, and 700 block spectrum. In a lot of ways it would make them a powerhouse, but only in certain geographic areas.

     

    US Cellular might just be too hard to integrate and that's probably the reason they are still independent.[/quote']

     

    If Sprint purchased US Cellular I do not see any reason why the fcc would force them to divest any spectrum.

    Network Vision on 1x Only Towers

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

     

     

    [*]Will Network Vision impact every single Sprint tower' date=' even ones that have never been upgraded to 3G?

    Yes. Sprint will be upgrading even 1x only sites to include 3G EVDO and LTE. As referenced above, there are just under 100 sites that will not be upgraded to LTE. But these are mostly in very rural Western locations that cannot get upgraded backhaul or in redundant urban locations.

    [*']If they are upgraded, will 3G be introduced, or will it just be LTE and 1x?

    Post Network Vision, there should no longer be any 1x only sites. Almost every single one of Sprint's 38,000+ native CDMA sites will feature 1xAdvanced/3G EVDO/LTE. However, 1x will travel slightly farther than EVDO and quite a bit farther than LTE from the same site.

    [*]Will 800MHz come to these rural towers eventually?

    Yes, in most instances. Sprint is installing CDMA 800 and LTE 800 separately. Sprint is installing CDMA 800 (1x) now during Network Vision in markets where they already have enough iDEN service cleared out, and will continue installing CDMA 800 throughout Network Vision. They will put CDMA 800 on most sites. Starting in late 2013, Sprint will also start adding LTE 800 at approximately 80% of sites. The 20% where they will not are in redundant urban locations and in places where they have 800MHz licensing issues.

     

    Hi OP, did you not see Roberts answer?

     

    Hope this helps.

    Network Vision/LTE - Indianapolis Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    Well... according to the "Network Vision/LTE Deployment Running List" thread' date=' Indy should start seeing their first LTE sites in October. Has anyone seen evidence of work commencing on any of the Indianapolis market towers yet? I'm on the south side of town and I haven't noticed anything yet on my local towers.[/quote']

     

    Hi,

     

    No I have not at this point it looks like they are at least 30 data behind.

    AT&T proposes deploying LTE in WCS 2.3 GHz band

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Sprint's WCS spectrum is crap and they only have a small amount in the Texas' date=' Louisiana area. Unless its nationwide coverage, there is no purpose of deploying LTE on that spectrum.

     

    If Sprint had to enter into a new LTE band, I would rather see Sprint enter the AWS band since that band continues to grow and there are Band classes already available for LTE deployment. There are even talks right now of making some spectrum available in the 1700 MHz range to extend the AWS band range as part of the 300 MHz of spectrum that is suppose to be made available in the next few years.[/quote']

     

    Crap for Sprint to deploy but not for Sprint to sell to ATT ;-) .

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    Sprint can never win

    in General Topics

    Posted

     

    What's wrong with their billing?

     

    Sent from my LG Viper 4G LTE using Forum Runner

     

    Nothing that I know of, they upgraded the support and billing systems after the Nextel purchase.

     

    Remember the horror stories of people being on two different billing systems?

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